Our release of the digital edition of T.O.M.B. III included some of the most recent T.O.M.B. recordings and features current T.O.M.B. associates. A select few collaborators who join No One in recordings and live rituals – including the June 2014 ritual included on T.O.M.B. III.

SKULSYR is a side project of T.O.M.B. and Dreadlords member Skera. Dark and sinister noise. Droning distortions, drifting ghostly patterns and disguised voices. This track in particular has similarities with T.O.M.B.’s abrasive, industrial noise.

Six years after our last T.O.M.B. release – Macabre Noize Royale – we present a digital collection of three separate creations. All newly studio remixed and remastered.

Earlier this year we began talking to NO ONE about a digital edition of the long unavailable Macabre Noize Royale – the black noise/black metal assault we released in 2008. A unique recording in T.O.M.B.’s history!
T.O.M.B.’s distinct field-recorded ambience, twisted industrial manipulations joined by members of the Pennsylvanian 80’s death/black underground (DETERIORATE, GOREAPHOBIA, HAZARAX). Only an album like Burning the Temple of God rivals the savage collision of raw noise and black metal on MNR!

Macabre Noize Royale will be a journey. It will combine unholy black metal with extreme nihilistic black noise.
This black noise is what many call my work.

With this digital release we intend to force a rediscovery and reappraisal of this powerful work, which is resurrected with punishing force after a lengthy remastering. We recommend headphones!!

The reissue began to expand with extra tracks until we decided to create the third T.O.M.B. collection. Total Occultic Mechanical Blasphemy III includes MNR,Nameless Spells and Incantations (2013), and a 2014 live recording.

Nameless Spells and Incantation was released by DumpsterScore Home Recordings on limited cd in 2013: Obsidian black drones and vocal chants lay the foundation for thick crushing walls of unrelenting harsh noise, primitive steel gate pounding and quite literal tombstone grinding. Listening to these recordings you get the feeling of being alone late at night, hooded figures loom in the shadows of a reverb drenched corridor. Distant pounding and indistinguishable voices draw closer and closer until a blinding surge of electricity fills the room and your bones are ground to dust.

The final part of this collection captures T.O.M.B. live. This ritual took place in Brooklyn, New York on June 15th as part of an evening headlined by WATAIN. The T.O.M.B. lineup was NO ONE, Panther Modern, Joseph Curwen (GHORAGEIST) and Samantha Viola (SKULSYR).
T.O.M.B. live is not ‘performance’ or a typical show. Through stone, metal, bone and blood they channel pure unholy energy and have a dramatic, physical effect on those in attendance:

…the guitarist began scraping an animal horn across a what looked like slab of slate amplified through a guitar pickup and subsequent PA system. The overwhelming but intriguing sounds caused several in the audience to buckle while others straight up blacked out. – 2012 w/ Sunn O)))

A video was captured of the June 2014 evening. The visuals, combined with our new audio recording – taken directly from the source, removing all extraneous sound and professionally remixed – recreates this powerful effect!!

Over the past year of remixing and remastering, this project has grown into an essential T.O.M.B. collection and presents NO ONE’s vision across different eras and settings.
T.O.M.B. has expanded it’s sound, experimented, explored sinister and dangerous new paths. Through it all the original manifesto has remained, since we first discovered the mysterious entity NO ONE in 2003 and the bond was formed. Still a unique force in underground art!

T.O.M.B. has been an experimental/spiritual journey in the development of myself as an artist and a person. The experiences from the disturbed places I have recorded, the influential people I have met and worked with, have stayed with me and are reflected in my material. The name Total Occultic Mechanical Blasphemy, clearly defines this project’s divine intentions; TOTAL freedom and expression through OCCULTIC ritual, beliefs and invocations. This is captured using MECHANICAL recording devices and equipment, with a subconscious intent to open and unleash the diabolical audio effects and essence of pure BLASPHEMY.

Future T.O.M.B. —

I wrote my material based upon three fazes. My more industrial black metal/noise was the first faze. I used what abilities and resources I had during that creative time period. This was the beginning and birth of the project. Once I began the second faze, I had developed several new types of recording techniques and tactics. I also expanded on my equipment arsenal. Combined I wanted to create audio that when played together,effected the senses. Mind, body and soul. So we started conducting ritual practices of invocation, using instruments and objects associated with primitive ritual, and record this inside abandon hospitals or asylums were negative malevolent energy can be easily conjured. Conjuring was the second faze. Fury Nocturous marks the third faze of the project and exposes the results from the past fazes, cryptic occult audio experimentation and extreme black magic.

The sound within the majority of this recording is not intended to be “direct” and of the clarity expected of modern music, to be able to hear each element distinctly. Rather it is distantly unfolding melodies and sounds on the borders of consciousness, of dreams we attempt to recollect but ultimately elude a firmer grasp other than a notion of lingering numinous presence felt, imperfectly but affectively. It is the very voice of the hills, of the streams, of the forests, of the skies, of the Deverills…

From today we carry all available MMP Temple titles, and will continue to make available future releases as they emerge.
MMP Temple are an Order of Nine Angles (ONA) related operation producing dark art on cassette.

MMP Temple was established during the 111th year of Fayen (2000, era vulgaris) under another name than it now bears, initially dealing in obscurely dark and original music presented on cassette tape. The rudimentary purpose thus explained is somewhat different compared to today, where we are now mainly concerned with ONA / Order of Nine Angles related or inspired material, however the form remains similar – the release of various Sinister music(k) works of superior quality imbued with a pernicious mysterium. By “superior quality” we refer to the depth of Sinister essence evoked within that musick, rather than the level of technical ability or some other “professional” qualities. Those latter being of no import whatsoever, except in the case of chant, vibration etc, or if the foreseen purpose of the musick requires it to be played in a certain key, perhaps…

The genuinely Sinister musick made available here is unremittingly baleful in its intent. Thus may it find you – inspiration for malign kindred in their bale-weorc, a presencing of the dark, a laying of the new Aeon’s foundations, distortion of the mundane, a curse on all others.